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Help Abe, Sally, and Brittany Serve Meals

Campus Kitchen doesn't slow down in the summer, and our students and volunteers could use your help to make all our meals happen. Please consider joining Abe Vysocky, Sally Fifield, or Brittany Westgard to do something meaningful in the neighborhood. Our base schedule for the coming weeks is:

Peace House homeless shelter - Tuesdays 11-1
Senior packaged meals - Thursdays 10-1
Ebenezer senior banquet - 1st & 3rd Fridays 5-7
(more meals may be added)

As of June 18th, we'll be serving lunch at Brian Coyle every day 12-1:30, as well as teaching gardening and cooking at the center in the afternoon. You're more the welcome to help with any of that.

For the current schedule, please see www.tinyurl.com/ckpcalendar and email me to sign up. Hope to see you soon!

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Urban Scrubs Camp Wins Award

Urban Scrubs Camp received the 2012 Health Care Career Promotion Award from the Minnesota Hospital Association at its annual awards ceremony last Friday evening. Augsburg College, HealthForce Minnesota, the Cedar Riverside Partnership, and Fairview Health Services have partnered to bring the camp to the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood since 2010. Urban Scrubs Camp will be held again this summer at Augsburg from July 9 - 13. Seventy-five youth (grades 9 - 12)from throughout the region are expected to attend. They'll have the opportunity to learn about health careers, interact with a variety of professionals and practitioners from the health care field, and experience what it is like to be on a college campus. Thanks to the many Augsburg faculty and staff who have contributed their time and talents to Urban Scrubs Camp.

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16th Annual Recovery in the Park

On Friday, May 25 the StepUP Program will participate in the 16th Annual Recovery in the Park. Over 500 recovering young people from local recovery high schools and adolescent treatment centers will gather at Keller Island Park for a day filled with sober activities. StepUP staff and students network and speak with youth about their experiences in recovery and as students in college highlighting that recovery and the college experience can work together.

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Event Director to Teach, Mentor Young Planners

Jodi Collen, director of event and conference planning at Augsburg College and chair of the Education Council of the International Special Events Society (ISES), will teach at an emerging professionals boot camp during August. The three-day program in Dallas will provide early-career event and conference planners a solid footing in the industry, and an opportunity to network with mentors and peers. The program includes sessions on contract negotiation, planning social and corporate events, tips and ideas for creative design, how-tos on developing production timelines and maintaining budgets, use of social media for events, and more. A syllabus for the program is at http://isesew.vtcus.com/EW2012/Education12.aspx .

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Twins Tickets for Friday, June 29

I have 2 tickets for Twins vs. Kansas City for Friday, June 29, 7:10 PM. These are my season tickets, section 319, row 6, behind homeplate. They are available for my season ticket price of $21.00/each (Individual game face value is $31.00/ticket). Contact Doug Scott at x1575 or scottd@augsburg.edu.

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